Proposal Development Support | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research | SIU

• Proposal Development Seed Grants

The Vice Chancellor for Research is allocating funds to support the development of large collaborative grant proposals with the goal to facilitate the submission of highly competitive funding requests to federal agencies.

PDS funds shall specifically facilitate the submission of large collaborative grant proposals with minimum proposed budget of $1,000,000 coming to SIU Carbondale (i.e. excluding subcontracts) and carrying full F&A (exceptions will be considered), and a minimum of three participating PIs from SIU.

PDS is specifically designated to support the proposal development process. PIs can request PDS to cover a variety of expenses that may arise during the Pre-Submission phase. Examples of expenses for which PDS funds may be requested include, but are not limited to:

• Travel support to facilitate meeting external collaborators or funding agencies;
• Acquisition of consumables or use of equipment and facilities to generate preliminary data;
• RA or postdoc support

PDS funds may not be used for faculty or staff salaries.

FY25 PDS Guidelines